How to Build a Simple Bookcase - Sofa Table

[Music] [Music] well this is going to be a fun project and it's really pretty simple we're basically just building plywood boxes on building a sofa table that will serve as a bookcase and when I finish the project I'm going to deliver it so I'll be able to show you what it looks like in the clients home and they own a really large epoxy painting that I made a couple of years ago and it will be fun to show you what a very contemporary painting looks like in I would say a more traditional home it's got a very eclectic feel so I'm excited to show you what that looks like now if you want to build this project I will have a cut list and a drawing that you can find on my website I got started by cutting most of the parts to size and now that I've got most of the parts cut I'm going to start building the cabinet [Music] [Music] I just finished building the two bookshelves and I'm about to attach them together but I thought I'd go over a few of the steps it took to get here so the first thing was to sandwich two pieces of 3/4 inch plywood together the next step was to pre drill and countersink holes in the bottoms and tops so I could screw the cabinet together and the very last step was to pre drill and countersink holes in the top of the bottom cabinet and that's how I'm going to attach the two cabinets together the next step is to beef up the bottom and the top of the cabinet and for that I'll rip strips of 3/4 inch plywood at an inch and a quarter [Music] [Music] [Music] I just cut the sides for the cabinet and just a little tip when you're dealing with a full sheet of plywood I set the fence so the offcut is the piece that I'm going to use and I make sure that it's just a little bit heavy maybe an eighth inch or a quarter inch heavy and then once I've got the off cut I set the fence to the exact measurement and then I can make a nice clean cut because I'm dealing with a much lighter piece and it's just easier to handle through the saw once I rip the pieces to size I cut them too late and now I'm going to attach them to the sides with screws from the inside of the cabinet [Music] you want to make sure that the side is flush with the front and then I like to tack it in place with an inch and a quarter nail and the nail gun just maybe three or four nails and then I'll screw the side to the cabinet from the inside the sides of the cabinet are half of an inch deeper than the depth of the cabinet and that's because I'll be using 1/2 inch plywood for the back I'm using 1/2 inch birch plywood for the back of the cabinet and I just finished cutting the ply with the size and I'm pre drilling in countersinking holes so I can screw the back to the cabinet and if you're wondering why use 1/2 inch plywood over quarter inch plywood well I just want a more quality look and feel to the back if you can think of pushing a book into a bookcase and the book hitting the back and if it's quarters plywood it may have some give and it may even have kind of a hollow sound where the plywood being or the half-inch plywood being screwed to the cabinet is going to do a nice solid sound and also it won't have any give so it does have maybe an extra 20 or 30 dollars to the cost of the project but I definitely think it's worth it [Music] [Applause] after I touched the back to the cabinet I ripped the material for the face room I'm using poplar for the face frame poplar is a very easy wood to work with it's readily available and it paints really nicely I'll attach the face frame to the cabinet with a little wood glue and inch and 3/4 nails in the nail gun [Music] just a little bit about the face frame in the order that I attach the face frame to the cabinet the first parts that I attached were the Styles at the ends of the cabinet the Stiles measure and inch and 3/4 wide after I attach the Stiles at the ends I then attached the rails at the bottom and the top of the cabinet the rails measure an inch and a half wide the next piece all attached will be the center style and then the last two rails I'll have all these measurements on the cut list I finished with the face cream on the front of the cabinet and now I flip the cabinet over and I've ripped strips of poplar out an inch and a half and now I'm going to picture frame the back of the cabinet okay well now that I've got the back of the cabinet picture framed I want to make molding for it inside the picture frame and I'm going to start by ripping strips of popular at an inch and a quarter to make the molding for inside the picture frames I've ripped strips of poplar at an inch and a quarter set the blade at a seven degree angle and set the fence at 7/16 of an inch [Music] I've run all the moulding through the saw at a seven degree angle and I'm left with a lot of heavy blade marks and a simple way to deal with that is to move the fence over to an inch in 3/16 flip the molding over and cut a right angle on the back of the molding now this is the up side of the molding once you've run all of your molding through cutting a right angle on the back move the fence over another sixteenth of an inch flip the molding around and cut a right angle on the front of the molding [Music] I've cut a ninety-degree on the back of all of the molding reset the fence at an inch and an eighth now flip the molding around and run it back through the saw [Music] this morning i standed and primed the cabinet and now it's outside drawing and I'm going to start working on the base of the cabinet I'll get started by first making this subframe out of poplar [Music] originally I plan to attach the bracing with Craig screws but the bit is just too long for this tight spot so I'm just going to use inch and 3/4 nails in the nail gun I just finished building the subframe for the base of the cabinet and the next step is to wrap the subframe with's appealing molding and I'll get started making that molding by first ripping boards at 2 and 1/2 inches [Music] [Applause] now I've raised the blade and change the angle to seven degrees and set the fence at a half of an inch [Music] [Music] now I'm going to use a roundover bit in the router and put a slight round over on the top of the base [Music] [Music] [Applause] I spent most of the day getting the top and the base ready for stain I put a slight round over on both sides of the top and sanded everything down to 224 stain I'm using Minwax walnut stain and this is always one of my favorite parts of the project so let's go ahead and get started [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] with your hand on this side right we're gonna put this back down first okay [Music] so I hope you enjoyed the video if you like my videos and you want to help support the show I do have a store you can find t-shirts at the store and also my original woodblock prints each one is signed and dated on the day that it's made so I hope you'll check that out thanks for tuning in and I'll see you soon [Music] you

Channel: Jon Peters - Longview Woodworking

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Id: QNYUg59ooWQ

Length: 15min 12sec (912 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 25 2015